The video went viral and I was heralded for standing up for myself and the ANTIFA loser did actually “fuck off.” The failing New Yorker tried to blame me in a false moral equivalence. I guess I shouldn’t have worn that dress or something. I recycled the line from Aristotle that courage is the virtue necessary to sustain all others when asked about it, but truthfully I was more than a little scared.

The incident troubled me. My “crime” is that I supported a candidate that slightly less than half the country voted for and I was public about it. I had worked to elect Donald Trump and I had thought things would be different after the election but we’re still being persecuted for supporting Donald Trump while the media ignores leftist violence. It can’t be a coincidence that in nearly every state where the terrorist organization known as #BlackLivesMatter was involved, Trump won big. Ferguson turned Missouri dark red. North Carolina wasn’t quite the swing state, was it, after paid terrorist DeRay McKesson came to town?

Fast forward to November 18th where I attended a dinner with Pax Dickinson, Tila Tequila, and Richard Spencer. As fate would have it I had introduced Tila and Richard Spencer because I wanted to see what would happen. This is, after all, the age of the troll, where reality television stars curry political power, where all the politicians are trying to be celebrities and all the celebrities are trying to be politicians. Big things are afoot and I wanted to see what would happen.

In our Orwellian era everything is the opposite of what it advertises: the anti-fascists are the fascists and they are protected by a police department which won’t protect you if they don’t like your politics. You are on your own and, no, you can’t have a gun to protect yourself.

There is really only one proper moral response to this kind of selective policing: defiance. You do your worst, loser. I’m not afraid. Or, as I put it, “Fuck off, we won!”

It was in that spirit that the “half-Jewish” guy and Tila Tequila did a Nazi salute, a sort of “fuck you” to the people outside threatening – and delivering – real violence. It was done with all the whimsy of a bisexual reality TV star-turned pop icon-turned activist. You can actually see Tila purposefully misspell “seig heil” (or at least you could before she was banned on Twitter for thought crime). How dare you thumb your nose at thugs!

These thugs assaulted Richard at the dinner and the next day attacked reporter Emily Youcis and stole her cameraman’s equipment. Don’t take my word for it — watch it yourself:

I was initially hesitant about attending Richard’s conference. I’m not a white nationalist or much of a nationalist at all but I’m fascinated about this anti-globalization, pro-nationalism push throughout the world. Shouldn’t I be able to ask questions about it in peace? Alas, in this country you aren’t allowed to have freedom of association. You aren’t allowed to draw your own conclusions. Future president Barack Obama could brag about the Marxist conferences he attended in NYC but don’t you dare go see the very WASPy Richard Spencer give a speech.

You might find yourself wondering: if the media is lying to us about everything and covering up the assaults against us, then what else are they lying about? If you’re constantly going to be comparing people to Hitler don’t be surprised when a few people read Mein Kampf and find something interesting in it. They aren’t Nazis but looking for something that our current era doesn’t provide. In declining orders there’s really only one question: do you want to hit the reset button or not? Enough of the country wanted to hit the reset button this last election. Why?

The facts of life are more complicated than any ideology. At least three of the guys at the dinner the other night are married to non-white women, including yours truly. Richard has himself dated Asian women. He is married though separated from a Russian-born immigrant. In a normal age that personal choice would protect him a bit from the lazy charges of xenophobia. Instead it indicts him in our Russophobic age.

Richard is a complicated man who I have met a few times but don’t quite have a handle on. My understanding of Richard’s politics is that he wants to create a sort of white NAACP, an advocacy group that sticks up for white people in much the same way every other ethnic group has a political arm. I wanted to ask him about these politics but ANTIFA started attacking us. It was so bad that some of us had to escape through the backdoor. The DC police wanted the restaurant to throw us out but to their credit they let us stay before condemning us in the media. Several of us tipped the restaurant staff extra anyway. This was, of course, after we gave a standing ovation to the mostly minority wait staff for protecting us while we had dinner.

We know that some animals are more equal than others. You aren’t allowed to have a Twitter or Facebook account unless you think the right thoughts in the right order. If you break news that other reporters can’t (or won’t) they’ll simply declare you fake news and kick you off their ad networks. One minute it’s yours truly getting kicked off of Twitter, then it’s Milo and then everyone else. Before you know it Breitbart.com is called a white supremacist website and being kicked off of ad services.

Breitbart’s Steve Bannon, for whom I once worked, is a patriotic Jewish-loving genius but that didn’t stop the two minutes of hate from calling him an anti-Semite for having the wrong politics (or for presiding over a winning campaign).

The left will keep calling us racists or some other -ists until we’re all off in the gulag. The respectable right doesn’t get this, hoping it can cut some sort of deal before it, too, is banned. Facebook employees talked openly about banning Donald Trump from the platform but other adults prevailed. For now.

This is why I won’t disavow or condemn Richard Spencer. I have my disagreements with Richard, not least of which is how chummy he is with the media, but part of being free is being free to draw your own conclusions and to raise your own questions peacefully.

Here are a few of mine after last week.

How long before those who are banning us from having dinner or from having Twitter accounts take that last step of killing us?

About Charles C. Johnson

Gotnews.com founder and editor-in-chief Charles C. Johnson is an investigative journalist, author, and sought after researcher. He was a contributor to the Daily Caller and the Blaze, and his work is frequently featured on Drudge Report. He is author of Why Coolidge Matters: Leadership Lessons from America’s Most Underrated President and The Truth About the IRS Scandal. Charles is an award-winning journalist who has also written for Wall Street Journal, New York Post, Los Angeles Times, American Spectator, Daily Beast, National Review Online, PJ Media, and Weekly Standard. Charles has appeared on Fox News with Megyn Kelly, Sean Hannity, and Lou Dobbs and numerous radio programs, including Rusty Humphries, Dennis Prager, Larry Elder, and Mark Levin. He is at work on a new book about the researcher community and Barack Obama.